More than 300 workers are to lose their jobs from Plymouth-based luxury motor boat builder Princess Yachts.

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Until this year, boat builder John McShea had to travel 45 minutes from Totnes to get to his business in East Portlemouth.

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Throughout his life, John Walton pursued various business interests, at one time working as a crop duster and later as a boat builder.

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Ansil Saunders, an 80-year-old world-renown fisherman, boat builder and local legend.

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"She looked so sorry for herself, tucked away in this boatyard, surrounded by numerous other boats rotting away in a type of nautical graveyard, " said boat builder and new owner, Dan Stevens.

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On the day I testified before the Senate Small Business Committee seeking to repeal the new luxury tax, we were able to show that a boat builder in Texas canceled his order for a new plane because of the negative impact that the tax had on his sales.

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"Typically in the boat-builder world, builders would do everything just because they could, " says Johns.

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This fourth generation boat-builder's boats go all over the world.

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